Friday, 5 August 2016

IS is Islamic terrorism, says P Jayarajan

IS is Islamic terrorism, says P Jayarajan

Kannur: CPM district
secretary P. Jayarajan has slammed the remarks of Salafi scholar Mujahid
Balussery for his take on terrorism and religion at a discussion held
in Thalasserry on Tuesday. In his Facebook post on Wednesday, Mr
Jayarajan said there was nothing wrong in calling Islamic State as
Islamic terrorism.

“If the terror activities of Sangh
Parivar could be termed as Hindutva terrorism, there is nothing wrong
with the term Islamic terrorism. Mr Balussery’s argument that the usage
religious terrorism should be replaced by anti-religious terrorism is
stupidity,” he said. Mr Jayarajan said, during his speech, Mr Balussery
had denounced the imperialist forces behind the IS but at the same time
supported Saudi Arabia.

“While
criticising imperialist forces, it is not welcome to cover up the
tie-up of Saudi with the same imperialist forces. Saudi Arabia and its
extreme Salafist ideology had caused terrorist activities in many parts
of the globe,” he reminded. Relating to Zakir Naik, he said if Hindutva
forces were trying to nail Mr Naik, it should be opposed. “But at the
same time it should not be a justification to the intolerance and narrow
religiosity being propagated by Zakir Naik,” the CPM leader said.

In the same post, he hailed another
Mujahid preacher, C.P. Salim. Mujahid Balusserry is associated with the
‘wisdom global Islamic mission’ section of Mujahids. The programme
against, 'religious terrorism’ was conducted by O.V. Abdulla Memorial
Trust and Dr Hussain Randathani and Swami Shiva Swaroopananda were among
speakers.